Long views and happy snowshoers at the Catskill Mountain Sugarhouse tour and stroll in 2018. Photo by L. Lyons

Grahamsville, NY – The public is invited to a Tour and Stroll at the Catskill Mountain Sugar House on Sunday, March 24 from 1:30-3 p.m.

Get your blood flowing where the sap is flowing – at a Maple Weekend Tour hosted by the Catskill Mountain Sugar House! The tour will be followed by a short snowshoe/hike, depending on conditions, around the beautiful mountaintop farm

Liberty, NY – The Sullivan County Public Health Department has been notified of two positive cases of measles in Sullivan County residents.

•           The individuals are considered to have been contagious from March 4, 2019 to March 12, 2019. They resided during this time primarily in Sullivan County but did spend time in and travel to Brooklyn, where there is an ongoing measles outbreak.  

Liberty, NY – Ruth (Siddons) Grant remembers when her birthday ended up accidentally overlooked, thanks to a relative’s same-day birthday party. But that was 100 years ago – literally – and Monday, February 25, on the occasion of her 110th birthday, no one forgot Ruth.

“I love it!” she gasped as balloons and a cake were presented to her at the Care Center at Sunset Lake, the County-run facility where she resides.

Livingston Manor saw people march in support of the Red Cross in the early 20th century.

Hurleyville, NY – March is National Red Cross Month, and The Sullivan County Historical Society invites everyone to the opening of the new exhibition at the Sullivan County Museum in Hurleyville, “Remembering the Red Cross.”

Lise-Anne Deoul, left, replaces Stephanie Brown as Sullivan County's Office for the Aging Director

Monticello, NY – Lise-Anne Deoul has been hired by Sullivan County as the new Director of the Office for the Aging.

Monticello, NY – Sullivan County Treasurer Nancy Buck is proud to announce that her office has again been honored with the Financial Reporting Achievement Award from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA). The County also received a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the GFOA.

Monticello, NY – Legislators have agreed to set two public hearings for citizens to make their feelings known about potentially staggering the terms of members of the Sullivan County Legislature.

Recommended by the County’s most recent Charter Review Commission as a way to better ensure the smooth function and continuity of County government, the initiative – if approved by legislators – would work this way:

Monticello, NY – The Sullivan County Human Rights Commission invites the entire Sullivan County community to join them for a special civil rights presentation and documentary screening on Friday, March 1 in Hurleyville.

Hosted by the Hurleyville Arts Centre, the event will feature NYS Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther, NYS Senator Jen Metzger and others speaking about civil rights, followed by a screening of the 2016 documentary “13th.” Named after the U.S. Constitution’s slavery-abolishing Thirteenth Amendment, the film explores race, justice, and mass incarceration in America.

Cecil Allen (front), Perry Gips and members of the band “Junction” from the early 70’s

Hurleyville, NY – The Sullivan County Museum’s First Sunday Music and History Program presents… The Allen Brothers.

Monticello, NY – In the wake of today’s news that Amazon has abandoned its effort to site a portion of its headquarters in New York City, Sullivan County Legislature Chairman Luis Alvarez issued the following statement: